One of the first things I thought as I read Emmaline was that I just had to let go and enjoy the ride. The airiness of the writing gave it a fairytale feel and that’s a good thing. From start to almost finish I was engaged in the charming, if admittedly unreal, relationship between the…
You never know what you are going to get when you pick up a new author, especially with a European Historical; at times I have wondered if the entire sub-genre isn’t just a played-out mine. Happily, The Veil of Night, Lydia Joyce’s debut, is promising. Thoughtful writing, insightful characters, and a fluid style make for…
I enjoyed Julie Anne Long’s debut novel The Runaway Duke, though I felt it sagged a bit in the last third. I was looking forward to reading her second novel, and while I felt it also had some problems toward the end, I liked To Love a Thief, a Regency-era Pygmalion story, even more. Gideon…
If you are reader of romance, chances are you have read a book like Ashes of Dreams before. It’s not all that original, but it is certainly entertaining. There’s something quite pleasant in reading a well loved story. Amanda Jeffrey and her husband Shane dreamed of starting a horse farm in Kentucky. They had a…
Lessons In Seduction is the first in a trilogy about three sisters who were abandoned as children, but rescued and raised by the kind Lady Greentree. I enjoyed the story, but didn’t find the characters particularly likable. Vivianna Greentree is a passionate reformer. She has never forgotten her experience as a lost and homeless child,…
This is a book that didn’t start out very well, but got better and better as it went along. I found the opening chapters slow, and the heroine isn’t a type of character that I care for. But as I say, the book just kept getting better. I’m quite happy that Heath is still writing…
For Camelot’s Honor is the second book in a series featuring brothers from King Arthur’s court. Although the novel is a bit predictable and mundane in the beginning, soon enough it becomes an emotionally packed and suspenseful book that is well worth the read. As the daughter of a Welsh chieftain, Elen leads a rather…
This is the last book in Karen Hawkins’s Talisman Ring series. The Talisman Ring belonged to the matriarch of the St. John family, and its legend says that the holder of the ring will find true love. Four St. John brothers have bitten the dust – er, already married – and Marcus St. John, Marquis…
I had a very hard time deciding what grade to give Tina St. John’s Heart of the Flame. It’s a pleasant read, smoothly told and nicely written, and I can’t really say there’s anything I disliked about it. But while it was nice enough, it had a number of flaws that kept it from being…
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation is a genre-bending book. It begins by introducing Eloise Kelley, our heroine in designer shoes; but instead of being a Chick Lit chick, said heroine is a student researching an historical figure. It doesn’t take too long before she finds a cache of diaries and letters, and pretty…
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